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North Carolina is getting sued for its terrible, horrible, no-good, very anti-LGBT law

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"By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B. 2 violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatm...

gaywrites:

It’s official: North Carolina is getting sued for the passage of HB2, the law that bans LGBT nondiscrimination protections and forces transgender people to use the wrong bathrooms.

Lambda Legal, the ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging HB2 on behalf of three individual plaintiffs and two advocacy groups (the ACLU of NC and Equality NC). 

The lawsuit argues that the new law denies LGBT people equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment because the new law was designed to single LGBT people out for discrimination and less protection.

“H.B. 2 was motivated by an intent to treat LGBT people differently, and worse, than other people, including by stripping them of the protections afforded by the City of Charlotte’s Ordinance and precluding any local government from taking action to protect LGBT people against discrimination,” the lawsuit alleges. By doing so, it continues, “H.B. 2 imposes a different and more burdensome political process on LGBT people than on non-LGBT people who have state protection against identity-based discrimination.”

Hell yes. Do the damn thing, y’all. Take. It. Down. 

#WalkInRed announcement

autistic-pixie-chick:

It has recently been brought to my attention that the #WalkInRed campaign which was made to counteract Autism Speaks’ #LightItUpBlue campaign has changed their hashtag for 2016. The new hashtag is #REDinsted, a tag which the campaign leader(s) chose because it is more inclusive to people who can’t walk.

From what I’ve seen in many recent posts on Tumblr most people aren’t aware of this change and are still referring members of the public to the #WalkInRed tag, which is unlikely to contain much relevant information this year due to the fact that the people running the campaign are no longer using that tag. Now, I know that many people are going to find the transition to the new tag difficult, especially if they’ve already created posts or taken photos involving the old tag, but the transition will be much more difficult if it happens in the middle of April when someone mentions the tag change, so if people could reblog and signal boost this post to get the information it before April that would be great.

Note: I had no part in the making of the campaign or the change in tags, I’m just passing along the information. How you transition your posts, and even whether you transition them at all or not, is up to you; my recommendation would be to simply start transitioning your posts over to the new tag when you can, and not to worry about the posts you’ve already made.

Some tags which you may see being used in addition to #REDinstead are #LightItUpRed and #LIUR, but those tags are likely to be used less, so you may not see as much activity in them.

imaginarycircus:

taimatrolls:

Ok so, replies are back and:

  • It seem like not everyone has the update yet.
  • You can reply multiple times to same post.
  • You can reply to your own post (but it won’t show up in your notes)
  • You can only reply to the original posts - not reblogs.
  • If you have xKit’s One Click Reply-extension and Classic Notification-extension you’ll be able to reply to replies by clicking as it shows up on your dash (if no Classic Notification, you can reach it by going to your notes-widget).
    • Since your replies to yourself won’t show up in notes you can’t reply to your self-replies this way.
  • You got 3 choices as for who can reply to your posts:
    • Everyone
    • Ppl you follow + ppl who’s been following you for 1 week+
    • Ppl you follow
  • You can’t turn off replies completely
  • Reblogs with comments and replies alike show up in little speech bubbles in notes if you click on a post’s notes. (The notes got a new look in general too it seem.)
  • You can only reply to ppl who already got the update.
  • Replies can’t be deleted.
  • Holding in Shift while you click Enter/Return will let you make line breaks while replying to a post, clicking Enter/Return without Shift on the other hand sends your Reply.
  • Letter count seem to be 475.

If you post a question and toggle the let people answer this question option–it seems to knock out people’s ability to reply to your at all.

So there’s a kind of blurring between reblog text and replies left to you personally. Is that an okay thing? I’m not sure yet.

humansofnewyork: “ “I help maintain properties for absentee landlords. I think most people imagine landlords to be rich guys on Long Island. But most of my clients only own one or two properties. A lot of times they were inherited. Part of my job is...

humansofnewyork:

“I help maintain properties for absentee landlords. I think most people imagine landlords to be rich guys on Long Island. But most of my clients only own one or two properties. A lot of times they were inherited. Part of my job is helping to get squatters out of the buildings. There are professional squatters out there. You can’t even call them criminals. They know the laws and they’re working within the system. If you catch somebody breaking into your house– that’s ‘breaking and entering.’ But if you happen to live out of state, and somebody breaks into your house and you don’t notice for six months, then that person becomes your tenant. It doesn’t matter if you gave them permission or not. If you want to evict them, you have to go through the legal system, which is very expensive. So it’s usually cheaper to pay the squatters off. The laws themselves aren’t bad. They were enacted to keep predatory landlords from evicting people without due process. But like all laws, there are people who have figured out how to abuse them. I have one squatter who has been living rent free in an old building for six years. He hasn’t paid a dime. He’s well dressed. He’s always very polite and professional when he answers the door. But we’re offering him $80,000 to leave and he’s asking for more.”